Feel the Pain,,,stop cruelty (Page 2)

Ms Aryaa: Cows soak up vast amounts of water. It takes a staggering 990 liters of water to produce one liter of milk. Wastes from feed lots and fertilizers used to grow their feed over-nourish the water and they cause weeds to grow. And weeds choke everything else. And what do you use in these animals? You use pesticides, antibiotics, hormones. All of this goes into the drinking water and endangers human health. And this pollution all washes down to the sea. It kills the coral reefs and it creates dead zones. There are over 200 dead zones in the ocean now, 1000’s of kilometers wide, including near India, including off Washington, which have no life.

One meat eater, one meat eater, contributes 1.5 tons more of greenhouse gases per year than a vegetarian. That is your global warming impact. This means that Your Diet change would make far more of a difference than trading in, for instance, your car. Many people think that if they trade in a standard car for a more efficient hybrid car this will save the earth, but it doesn’t. It reduces annual greenhouse emissions by just 1 ton a year, and then you create 1.5 tons by eating meat.

Now India alone for instance, we have livestock of 485 million cattle. So we have, we contribute how much more to global warming than our cars do? In fact, we contribute 11.75 million metric tons of methane per year. And it is increased by 2.75 million in just the last 10 years, because we were 9 million metric tons in 1994. That’s how fast methane is growing.

Ms Aryaa: Now, these cattle, these pigs, these chickens, these goats, they didn’t want to be born. You created them. All 1.5 billion cows in the world, you created them. They don’t want to be killed, but you kill them to eat. In the process you kill not just them you kill the planet. Their wind, their manure are warming the earth 23 times faster than carbon dioxide. Now what can we do? The costs to reducing carbon dioxide are much larger because it needs technology. The cost to reducing methane is zero. Simply stop eating meat

You can replace rice, which is the second largest producer, with other natural grains, for instance millets or oats. You cannot stop global warming by simply switching off the lights after you leave the room, which is what children are being told. It has no impact at all. It will take decades to turn around technologies, to bring in zero emission fuel sources, even if they were available and even if you were willing to do them today.

Ms Aryaa: After all the struggling and pushing and yelling and screaming about Kyoto, the world has only got 3% in alternative technologies to tackle carbon dioxide. But You can remove methane in one day starting with today’s dinner. If you stop eating meat today you will stop my Ganges glacier from melting. And 23% of my people will survive, because the magnificent and holy Ganges will stop turning into a stream. So will the Yangtze and all the major rivers of Asia. And so will the Amazon.
And how will this impact you? My people will not become refugees and storm your gates to enter your country. So not only will you save the world yourself, stopping eating (meat) will also stop so much poverty on the planet. It brings you better health. It eliminates most cancers. It frees up masses of land for vegetables and grains and really good eating. It allows water for the poor. For instance, do you know that one slaughterhouse in my city uses 16 million liters a day, and one family gets one liter? They are actually putting police people in Kenya to guard the taps so that nobody can take more than one mug, while the slaughterhouse in Kenya takes all the water.

Ms Aryaa: Take the power into your own hands. You can become an earth saver. You don’t need machines. You don’t need governments. You don’t even need treaties like the Copenhagen treaty, in which so much carbon dioxide and methane is going to be generated by bureaucrats and politicians. You can stop it today by yourself.

If you stop eating meat now you can bring down air pollution and global warming by reducing methane. According to your own Environment Protection Agency, methane is directly linked to the production of ozone in the troposphere, which is the lowest part of the earth’s atmosphere, which goes from the surface to about 12 kilometers high. Ozone is the main reason for smog, and it’s also a greenhouse gas. So methane goes, smog goes.

You know Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which last year was a co-sharer of the Nobel Peace Prize, agrees that the quickest way to save the world is by turning vegetarian. Imagine how simple it is. Maybe this is the ultimate lesson that nature is trying to teach us. Wickedness brings sorrow. Good gets good. Don’t kill and don’t be killed. Thank you."

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Ms Aryaa: More on the topic laters....

DiIIy: Id love to read your point of view Aryaa and what you do in support. Changed eating and or shopping habbits. Products you prefer.....things like that.

Ms Aryaa: ok dilly, that too I will post...but in the evening...have to go to work now.

Jetters: Coles (for Aussies) have recently responded to pressure to start stocking free rangs pork and chooks. Its a little pricier, but RSPCA approved, so the animals have had some sort of stress free existence, albeit before they are slaughtered the same way. Coles have also pledged to no longer stock pork from farms that have those horrid sow stalls, where the mum pigs cant even move. This all comes from consumer pressure and awareness. Even if people dont have money/time, they can create awareness around these issues, as most people are ignorant of what goes on and how this meat gets to us.

DiIIy: The meat is only slightly higher in price but doesn't it look and taste so much better.

I found that many cuts of meat with hormone additives and possible what they were being feed on, really upset my gut but since ive been changing my choices in meat products the issue is disappearing.

Jetters: Thats excellent...and you know its terrifying when you find out chooks are only 6 weeks old ....the ones that are BBQ chooks in the supermarkets. 6 weeks old....how much shit have they had injected to grow them so quickly. And we eat it? And we wonder why cancer is higher than ever in the western world.

DiIIy: As a kid we had chooks and at 6weeks old you wouldnt even have considered eating them.

Gfs n i always joke about the young girls of today and how developed physically they are compared to us at similar ages.......we blame it on the chicken...lack of hormones in our day (for those not getting the joke)

Jetters: You are probably right, the things we are eating and the way we manufacture them are poles apart these days. Id never actually thought about that Dils, but I reckon you are dead on there.

DiIIy: I tell ya Jets i sure is hell wasn't as developed at 12 as the young girls are today. At my sons formal there were 16yrolds that shit all over us and look years beyond their age bracket. You cant tell me that they ALL are blessed with good genes.

Hubby has work mate that get fresh slaughter meat from his inlaws farm, they do the rounds of friends to see what cuts everyone would like. Free range beef feed on natural food.....delicious.

Jetters: I agree and it sounds all hippy to say, but happy animals produce better meat. And even though I dont agree with hunting, I would say Tink's venison tastes great as the deer are free and happy, until the end. Which, one would hope, is quick and less traumatic than a slaughterhouse.

Jetters: Everyone should really watch "If sluaghterhouses had glass walls" with Paul McCartney. Noone could think there is anything right about the way we cause fear and terror in these animals....

DiIIy: Slaughterhouses are disgusting. A bf many years ago worked in one (this was over 20yrs ago) and the things he told me sickened me. I wont go into details but let me say if the animal didn't die the first go round it suffered. Many of the guys that worked with him didnt give a rats how they killed the animal.

Jetters: Ive seen a few vids about that...even though we stun and it should be be painless, often the bolt misses and they are gutted alive. The whole thing is horrifying. And you know that AA closed down a piggery in Vic after they taped a guy beating a pig to death with a sledge hammer. Im sure slaughterhouses have some pure sociopaths working there. Not all, obviously, but you'd have to be hard.

PureSilver67: When my parents were dairy farmers they were always "free range" - enough land / head of cattle and grass fed, with grain during the milking. We of course had as much milk (full cream) as we wanted.

They are now beef farmers on the same property and the cattle are still "free range" being grass and hay fed, with molasses licks. My dad talks to them and calls them up to the yards. He doesn't use a horse or motor bike. If one is being "difficult" (i.e. not coming up) he goes and walks down and gets it up himself - he's almost 70 and fit-as!! Sometimes we all stand on either side of the crossing of our road to help get the cattle from one side to the other and the girls and I "look after them" ( lol ) when my parents are away.

They don't kill on the farm because they don't like to see one of their animals die. They are sold by being taken in a friends truck to the sale yards.

They also have chickens for which I built and snake proofed the shed. They get let out during the day - so are free range. We enjoy their eggs all the time and they're soooo much more yellow than factory chicken eggs.

Jetters: That sounds like as perfect a life as any cow or chook can have Pure. So happy your parents were so kind hearted to their animals

Ms Aryaa: @Dilly
like I posted before, I am a vegetarian.
I don't use leather products, be it belts, handbags, shoes, wallet, travel-gear etc. I use herbal cosmetics. I don't buy any product/collectibles/figurines home-decor things that has ivory or animal skin. No furs/leather/silk in clothes, furnishings etc. That is it.

Ms Aryaa: 17,000 species all around the world are under threat of extinction and it is not clear to anyone, how many of these species can be saved from extinction, and if all cannot be saved, which one should be saved.
[from - Conservations Biology mag.]

Lanra:
Temple Gradin is an awesome woman who changed how cattle were treated at slaughter houses. Research her methods and designs, there is also a movie out about her.

I was here: All meat that we eat is free range. Venison is very tasty, I grew up on it though, I have heard from others that it is an aquired taste. But yes, the deer live a very happy life and yes the kill is fast. I would like to think that they don't even see it coming.

In fact all the animals at the farm live a free and happy life. Grass fed beef, free roaming is the only way to go. We do not kill at the farm either. The steers are shipped at about 18 months old to market. They are certified organic. The female calves are sold as breeding stock.

We purchase our chickens and eggs from a fellow farmer and they too are organic and free roam. They don't get put in the hen house though, they do lay their eggs there though.

The pork we purchase isn't organic but the pigs live a happy life, they have a good sized enclosure and there are no stalls keeping them apart.

Those are the only 4 meats we eat. We don't eat fish or seafood, never have. I imagine because I didn't eat it growing up.

How about you Aryaa...were you raised as a vegetarian?

Ms Aryaa: That is very nice vid. SilhoaruaLuette. Animals have all kinds of emotions just like humans.
A documentary series 'Life' by BBC TV is worth watching to get a glimpse on how so many species on this earth survive all odds, adapt and evolve. How the animal-moms take care of their young ones etc.

Ms Aryaa: Yes Tinkerbell.